Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping's feature debut stars Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as a drag queen who seeks to exact a unique kind of revenge on his attacker (George MacKay) and was a film borne out of the frustrations of not seeing a queer lead in a mainstream thriller.
“The idea was very much to do a kind of riff on hyper-macho, late night, neo-noir thrillers,” says Freeman, pointing to the output of the Safdie Brothers, Nicolas Winding Refn and Martin Scorsese as reference points. “It’s the stuff we really enjoyed watching together, but always felt like there wasn’t really space for queer characters in those films. It felt almost like a boys’ club that you weren’t allowed into.
Having had this idea to do their unique “twist” on the genre but without the experience to get backing for a full feature,Coming with an equally impressive casting of Paapa Essiedu and Harris Dickinson — “we just thought, we’re going to shoot for the stars,” notes Ng — the shortended up doing far better than they thought, being nominated for a BAFTA last year and winning a British Independent Film Award.. “We just wanted to help define it as a completely new thing,” says Ng.
“The idea then became that Preston takes Jules’ drag, which is his source of power in the beginning of the film, away from him, and therefore his revenge is that he takes Preston’s drag, which is his performances of masculinity and heterosexuality, away from him,” says Freeman. Liam Neeson on a murderous rampage across Europe to kill those responsible for kidnapping his daughter,isn’t. But it is definitely fresh and something that both filmmakers say they hadn’t seen on screen before .
“The thing that is clearest to us is that we wanted to see a queer lead in a mainstream thriller,” says Ng. “It’s exciting to us that we can break into the mainstream with a non-mainstream type of character.”has already been credited with launching a new genre: “queer noir.”Read More About:
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